SOUTH AFRICA.
By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyrighl London, July ‘24.
The King has approved of the appointment of Lord Chief Justico Alverstono, Justice Bighain, and Major-General Sir John Andar, as a Royal Commission, with Mr Gilbert Mellor, barrister, as soeretary, to inquire into tho court-martial sentences passed whilo martial law was in operation in South Africa, and report as to tho expediency of a reduction or remission of the sentences.
Mr Killuer, Mayor of Bloemfontein in 1900, being interviewed in Berlin, eulogised tho British conduct of tho war, tho deep concern of the officers over the earlier mortality in the concentration camps, and tho efforts to improve sanitation. He added: “ Annexation assures freedom, progress, and prosperity."
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 484, 25 July 1902, Page 2
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115SOUTH AFRICA. Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 484, 25 July 1902, Page 2
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